Cody Hamman

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Eric Red’s The Men Who Walk Like Wolves novels up for pre-order

Posted 10 years ago

Eric Red has a lot of great film credits to his name (THE HITCHER, NEAR DARK, BLUE STEEL, BODY PARTS, BAD MOON, 100 FEET, the list goes on), and he is also an author, having written about such nightmarish topics...

Spend Valentine’s Day watching Lovers Lane with Anna Faris

Posted 10 years ago

Last Valentine's Day, the Face-Off article I wrote to celebrate the holiday was HOSPITAL MASSACRE vs. LOVERS LANE, putting a 1981 slasher up against a 2000 slasher, both of which are set around Valentine's Day. I don't own a copy...

A hold-up takes a violent turn in this Exclusive Clip from Drifter

Posted 10 years ago

When I first wrote about director/producer Chris von Hoffmann's DRIFTER last month, I said that part of the reason why I'm interested in seeing the film is because the synopsis makes me think of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, just with...

Keough and Grabol enter The House That Jack Built for Lars von Trier

Posted 10 years ago

Controversial Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier will soon begin production on a serial killer movie called THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, an idea that was originally conceived as a TV mini-series but has since been whittled down into a feature....

Boyd Holbrook doubts Schwarzenegger will appear in The Predator

Posted 10 years ago

We've watched director Shane Black assemble an interesting cast for THE PREDATOR, his "inventive sequel" to 1987's PREDATOR, as the production start draws near. There's Boyd Holbrook as an ex-Marine who discovers the existence of the Predator aliens, Olivia Munn...

Trailer for Ana Lily Amirpour’s The Bad Batch is vast and unknowable

Posted 10 years ago

Ana Lily Amirpour's feature directorial debut A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT was one of my favorite first-time viewings in 2015, so I'm interested in seeing how she'll follow it up and where her career will go from there....

Ouija use goes wrong in [REC] co-creator Paco Plaza’s Veronica

Posted 10 years ago

From THE EXORCIST to WITCHBOARD to OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, the talking board patented by Elijah Bond in 1890 has been at the center of many horror films, and a board is about to cause trouble for yet another batch...

Goodbye Dinos: Ted Levine joins Jurassic World 2

Posted 10 years ago

The sequel to 2015's JURASSIC WORLD appears to be coming together quite nicely, and is expected to start filming sometime next month with J.A. Bayona (THE ORPHANAGE, A MONSTER CALLS) taking over the helm from JURASSIC WORLD director Colin Trevorrow....

Lies and revelations in the latest Ghost in the Shell trailer

Posted 10 years ago

I knew the title "GHOST IN THE SHELL" before it was announced that Rupert Sanders would be directing a live action adaptation of the Japanese manga, but the title is all I knew about this property. Now that trailers and...

Circus performers will seek revenge in Robert Stromberg’s Carnival

Posted 10 years ago

It's always a good thing when the description of a film project can bring to mind the 1932 Tod Browning classic FREAKS, and such is the case with the noir thriller CARNIVAL, a project that's set up with Anonymous Content,...

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